David Nebenzahl wrote:

Please note that I'm posting this simply out of
frustration; I don't expect any solutions to these
problems.

I'm one of the zillions of analog TV owners who ended up
with one of these DTV converter boxes. For the most part,
it's worked well. Picture and sound are fine, and it has
decent software to navigate and choose channels.

But there are definitely some flaky aspects to its
behavior. Most obvious lately has been the way that it
"forgets" what time it is, or at least what the correct
hour is. For the last few days it's been consistently off
by exactly one hour, both in its display of the current
time and in the time of "now" and "next" show times.

I actually called Zenith today about this problem. Of
course, it wasn't long into the call that I was told "By
the way, we don't support this product anymore". Not
terribly surprising, I guess, given that this was
basically a transitional device at the dawn of DTV.

Other flakiness exists. Many times, while scrolling
through the "Simple Guide" menu, the information given for
a given channel is either totally missing ("No Program
Information"), or is wildly inaccurate, for instance
showing a show that aired 5 hours previously.

The software seems pretty badly designed. Anyone else
noticed these problems?

Mine does those things too! I blame the television station:
that's where the converter gets the time and scheduling
info. Otherwise, the Zenith converter does a great job
for me ... far superior to the crummy box I bought from
Walmart.

Bryce